First we've got population. Now, the world
today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed
up to about nine billion. Now, if we do
a really great job on new vaccines, health
care, reproductive health services, we could
lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent,
but there we see an increase of about 1.3
(per year).Bill
Gates - Population
- Vaccine
- Controversy
- Health
- Disease

As our economy faces up to potential labour
shortages due to our ageing population and
as it moves to a new level of sophistication
to compete with the rest of the world, were
going to need every Australian on board
pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce,
gaining new skills. Writing
off individuals and communities suffering
from poverty just creates a dead weight
for our economy to drag along.Julia
Gillard - Jobs
- Australia
- Economy
- Education
- Skills
- Poverty

The concept of social inclusion in essence
means replacing a welfarist approach to
helping the underprivileged with one of
investing in them and their communities
to bring them into the mainstream market
economy. Its a modern and fresh approach
that views everyone as a potential wealth
creator and invests in their human capital.
My reason for adopting such an approach
is simple: at a time when Australia needs
more skilled people and has an ageing population,
we simply cant afford to have one
in ten or more of our people out of the
workforce due to unemployment, low skills
or the effects of chronic poverty. Social
inclusion is an economic imperative.Julia
Gillard - Social
- Australia
- Economy
- Wealth
- Skills
- Poverty
- Help
- Employment

If the firms that employ an increasing majority
of the population are driven solely to satisfy
the owner's greed at the expense of working
conditions, of the stability of the community,
and of the health of the environment, chances
are that the quality of our lives will be
worse than it is now.Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi - Environment
- Business
Ethics
- Greed
- Profits
- Companies
- Jobs

In short, we must face problems which do
not lend themselves to easy or quick or
permanent solutions. And we must face the
fact that the United States is neither omnipotent
nor omniscient, that we are only six percent
of the world's population, that we cannot
impose our will upon the other ninety-four
percent of mankind, that we cannot right
every wrong or reverse each adversity, and
that therefore there cannot be an American
solution to every world problem. John
F. Kennedy - Problems
- Solutions
- USA
- Global
- Population
- Hegemony
- Adversity

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread
out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental
damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored.
As a large city, Tokyo must be used more
efficiently and the population density increased.Minoru
Mori - Japan
- Real
Estate - Society
- Environmental

Upwards of two hundred species.. mostly
of the large, slow-breeding variety.. are
becoming extinct here every day because
more and more of the earth's carrying capacity
is systematically being converted into human
carrying capacity. These species are being
burnt out, starved out, and squeezed out
of existence.. thanks to technologies that
most people, I'm afraid, think of as technologies
of peace. I hope it will not be too long
before the technologies that support our
population explosion begin to be perceived
as no less hazardous to the future of life
on this planet than the endless production
of radioactive wastes.Daniel
Quinn - Nature
- Life
- People
- World
- Technology
- Peace
- Environmental